Obituary: Arnold Palmer died on September 25th

GOLF clubs abounded in Arnie Palmer’s life. By the end he had roughly 10,000, divided between his warehouse at the Latrobe Country Club in Pennsylvania, where it had all begun, and his workshop behind his house, also in Latrobe. If you asked, he could root out the driver with which he had whacked the ball 346 yards from the first tee to the green, 22 feet from the hole, at the US Open at Cherry Hills in 1960; the five-iron with which, in 1986, he holed in one at the same hole at Avenal Farm in Maryland on two successive days; even, from somewhere, the four-iron he had used around 1950, when he was still in college, to get out of the rough, cut through the trees and hook onto the green in a single shot, one putt away from a birdie.